實用商務情景口語:你獲聘了!

PH: Sarah! Good to meet you again! And welcome on board(歡迎加入我們)!
ST: Thanks Philip, I’m very pleased to be here.
PH: I hope you enjoyed your holiday – where did you go?
ST: I went to was lovely - great beaches and lovely food...
PH: Lucky you! It’s time for hard work now, though!
ST: I’m ready for it!
MB: Let me show you to your office...
ST: I didn’t know I’d have my own office! So you don’t hot desk(辦公桌輪用) here?
MB: Well, most people do – as you can see - but we thought you’d need all your own private space...
PH: Yes, especially if you’re meeting clients directly...
MB: But the atmosphere is actually quite informal because it’s open plan(房間的開敞式平面佈置).
ST: That’s good – I like that – you definitely get the sense of everyone being really busy!
PH: Yes, they are – I hope!
MB: So – this is your space!
ST: Wow! Great – lots of space! My last office was much smaller...
PH: How many people did you work with there?
ST: I had a team of three.
PH: Well here you’ll have six people under you. We’ll introduce you to your sales team after lunch.
ST: Hmmm – that sounds good. What do you usually do for lunch(你們午飯一般吃什麼)?
MB: Some people bring it in, but there’s a canteen on the ground floor – the food’s actually quite good, and pretty cheap!
ST: Great.
PH: Now then, I’ll tell you about your schedule – there’s a sales and marketing meeting every Monday, as well as a meet up with the various heads of department on Thursday afternoon, just so we know what we’re doing...
MB: Other than that(除了這些之外,除此以外), how you organise your time is up to you(由你決定)...
ST: That’s fine – I’m a good time manager!
PH: ’ll leave you to it then!
ST: I think I’m going to like working here!

canteen: a place where food is served, especially at a military base or workplace (工廠、學校等的)餐廳,小賣部
The professor sometimes dines at the student canteen.
那位教授有時在學生餐廳用膳。

Schedule
1. 表;清單;目錄
Have you got a schedule of postal charges?
你有沒有郵資價目表?
2. 【美】時間表;課程表;(火車等的)時刻表
The teacher posted the schedule of classes.
教師將課程表公佈出來了。
3. 計劃表;日程安排表
They have planned a tight schedule of travel.
他們安排了一個緊湊的旅行日程。
4. 報表

In the final video Sarah starts her first day at WebWare and Philip and Marcia show her around the office. Sarah is surprised to find that she doesn’t have to hot desk. Hot desking is the practice of using any available desk at work, instead of having a desk assigned to you and is quite common in UK companies. It is often associated with flexible working and work-life balance, two buzz words in corporate life these days.

在今天這集節目中，我們瞭解了"hot desking"這個新的概念，意思是“辦公桌輪用(非固定分配)".

Flexible working(彈性工作方式) is a phrase that describes any working pattern adapted to suit the needs of the employee.

Common types of flexible working are:

part-time: working less than the normal hours, perhaps by working fewer days per week 兼職

flexi-time: choosing when to work (there's usually a core period during which you have to work) compressed hours: working your agreed hours over fewer days 可伸縮的勞動時間

staggered hours: different starting, break and finishing times for employees in the same workplace 工作時間錯開制

job sharing: sharing a job designed for one person with someone else home working: working from home 輪崗制